(Illus
4-1) Yet the right composition the wax cylinder, well as
the best arrangement reproducer and recorder, still eluded
the experimenters West Orange. Its design shows that Edison had considered the
commercial aspects the phonograph for now came a
compact form and was fully enclosed wooden box.IV-12
PERFECTING THE PHONOGRAPH
In the summer 1888 now famous photograph Edison
appeared the press showing the exhausted inventor (in a
somewhat Napoleonic pose) with the new phonograph. This event should have marked the end the phonograph
campaign and the beginning the ore milling venture, but
Edison made the ore milling syndicate wait while continued
.(Illus. Although
introduced the "perfected phonograph," the machine was far
from perfect. The design
owed lot the telegraph equipment Edison had once
manufactured— its precise electro-mechanical works were mounted
on metal casting that served base plate, easy access
and adjust. 3-1,
#6164, Chapter Three) This device was the result the first
experimental campaign the West Orange laboratory. The mechanism was more sturdy, and the motor and
governor had been redesigned provide constant speed.
This first prototype the "perfected" phonograph went
to England with Gouraud immediately after the photograph was
taken
